David Landry is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience combining hands-on software craft with technical leadership across startups, enterprise consulting, and research. Based in Durham, NC, he has deep full‑stack and backend chops—Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, NodeJS—and a strong focus on code quality and maintainability, evidenced by targeted refactors in open-source projects like the MontFerret declarative web-scraper. He’s served as a fractional CTO and mentor to early-stage teams, translating product roadmaps into pragmatic technical delivery while also leading engineering teams at Avanade and CaribbeanOS. His background in electrical and computer engineering and sensor research (GPU/CUDA, instrument design) gives him uncommon breadth for solving systems-level problems and shipping reliable, production software.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
Declarative data automation language and Go runtime for structured extraction workflows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:27 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on refactoring and fixing issues within the project, demonstrating a strong understanding of the codebase. Their commits involved addressing unused parameters and fixing errors, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. Moreover, the user made changes related to variable and method naming conventions, improving code readability and adherence to style guidelines. Additionally, the user made changes to the HTML driver.
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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